Pashinyan said he is not going to resign

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told fellow members of the Civil Contract party that he intends to retain power. About it reported newspaper “Hraparak” with reference to its own sources.

The publication claims that the previous night, “when thousands of citizens protested on Republic Square, demanding Pashinyan’s resignation,” the Prime Minister spent the previous night conferring with a narrow circle of the “Civil Contract.”

“He told the team, perhaps not directly, that he would under no circumstances give up power and would retain it at any cost. Perhaps this was due to the fact that the police used brute force and stun grenades against citizens in the square,” writes Hraparak.

On September 19, Azerbaijan began “anti-terrorist measures” in Nagorno-Karabakh to “restorate the constitutional order” of the republic. The Armenian Foreign Ministry condemned the actions of Baku and called them “large-scale aggression”, Pashinyan accused Baku in an attempt to drag his country into full-scale military action. September 20 in NKR reported on reaching agreements on a complete ceasefire and disarmament of troops through the mediation of Russian peacekeepers. During a military operation died more than 200 people. Among the dead There is Russian peacekeepers. The number of wounded exceeded 400 people. The number of civilian deaths reached 10 people, more than 40 were injured.

Against the backdrop of events in Nagorno-Karabakh, near the Russian Embassy in Yerevan started clashes between protesters and law enforcement officials. The Russian diplomatic mission said that the embassy building was completely blocked by protesters. Four people detained on suspicion of calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order or illegally carrying knives.